Tag: March 2019

Hymns: RHC 195, O Love Divine, 387 I Need Thee Every Hour, 358 What a Friend We Have in Jesus

Job 4:1-12

KJV Job 4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? 3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. 5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. 6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? 7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad. (Job 4:1-12 KJV)

DISCREDIT

OUTLINE

(1) Using Sarcasm to hurt (v1-6)

INTRODUCTION

Here begin the three cycles of speeches between Job and his friends. The first cycle is from chapters 4-14 in response to Job’s first speech in chapter 3.

Eliphaz is the most senior among Job’s three friends, he speaks first. He represents the three, notice in Job 42:7 that God singled out Eliphaz as the leader of the three for rebuke, Job 42:7 “And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.” We can see that Job is the only true theologian in this book.

His friends speak a semblance of the truth but denying the power thereof, they misapplied theology to their shame and deeply hurting, adding more afflictions to Job. They were miserable comforters. It would have been better if they had remained silent.

Hymns: RHC 335 Keep on Believing, 326 Only Believe, 337 Never Give Up

Job 3:20-26

KJV Job 3:20 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. (Job 3:1-26 KJV)

Lamentation of a Depressed Soul (3)

OUTLINE

(1) Why Was I Born? (v1-10)

(2) Why Did I Not Die Earlier? (v11-19)

(3) Why Am I Still Alive? (v20-26)

Hymns: RHC 327 All Things Work Out for Good; 358 What a Friend We Have In Jesus; 324 Trusting Jesus

Job 3:11-19

11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. 17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19The small and great are there; and the servant isfree from his master. 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. (Job 3:1-26 KJV)

Lamentation of a Depressed Soul (2)

OUTLINE

(1) Why Was I Born? (v1-10)

(2) Why Did I Not Die Earlier? (v11-19)

(3) Why Am I Still Alive? (v20-26)

Hymns: RHC 10 Still, Still with Thee; 13 Abide with Me; 337 Never Give Up

Job 3:1-10

KJV Job 3:1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job spake, and said, 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’swomb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. (Job 3:1-10 KJV)

Lamentation of a Depressed Soul

OUTLINE

(1) Why Was I Born? (v1-10)

(2) Why Did I Not Die Earlier? (v11-19)

(3) Why Am I Still Alive? (v20-26)